We've found the problem and fixed it for now, brining the fah web server back on line. The problem interestingly enough was in certificate generation: it simply wasn't fast enough to handle the huge load that we've been getting due to facebook traffic. This was never a problem in almost 10 years, but we've optimized just about every other piece of code except for this one, so it's the new bottleneck (and we've been getting 100's of certificate requests per second).

We'll work on improving that code, but for now, the server is up, except for certificates.

We took fah-web.stanford.edu down for maintenance while we see how to handle the load we're getting. The stats system is still updating, but you won't be able to see the stats until this web server is back on line.

It looks like we're getting a lot of new traffic on our stats pages. That's always good to bring FAH some attention, although the load is now getting very high and slowing down the web site. We've been investigating what's the best fix. The next step is probably to upgrade our web serving capability, but we want to get some more information over the next day or so before doing any major changes to our backend.

February 20, 2011

In preparation for our v7 client launch, we will be adding some facebook elements to our Folding@home web pages, including the http://folding.stanford.edu information page as well as stats pages. Today, we have turned on facebook links on the team stat pages, so you can easily recommend your team on facebook. While the integration will start small, we will be working to enhance it as time goes on.